The main "feature" is that when you get the +1 vote you yourself get to deal
with the grunge work of apply
patches to one or more svn branches, resyncing that with the git branches
you inevitably do your own work on.
no, main feature is major speed advantage. It takes forever to get
something committed. I was annoyed with apache nutch last year and
forked it, here is snapshot from forked codebase
http://forum.lupa.cz/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=1674.0;attach=3439
now its 160k LOC on top of apache nutch 1.4. If i worked with these
guys, it would be never done because it took them 4 months to get 200
lines patch reviewed.
Hadoop has huge backlog of patches, you need way more committers then
you have today. I simply could not assign person to working on hadoop
fulltime because if he submits mere 5 patches per day, you will be never
able to process them.
Your current development process fail to scale. What are your plans for
moving development faster?
